McCain: GOP needs to prevent SCOTUS from ’tilting to the left’

Victoria Sarno Jordan

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said during a Thursday rally that Republicans need to prevent the Supreme Court from “tilting to the left.”

{mosads}“There could be as many as three Supreme Court justices that will be chosen in the next four years,” McCain said during a get-out-the-vote rally, as reported by The Washington Post.

“We have to have a Senate who will prevent that four-to-four split from tilting to the left and making decisions that will harm this nation for decades to come.”

Last month, the Arizona senator told a Philadelphia radio station Republicans would “be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton — if she were president — would put up.”

The Arizona senator later walked back his implication that GOP senators would automatically oppose any potential Supreme Court nominee from the Democrat.

Rachael Dean, a spokeswoman for the GOP senator, said although McCain “believes you can only judge people by their record” and the Democratic presidential nominee “has a clear record of supporting liberal judicial nominees,” he would consider any Supreme Court pick sent to the chamber.

“Senator McCain will, of course, thoroughly examine the record of any Supreme Court nominee put before the Senate and vote for or against that individual based on their qualifications as he has done throughout his career,” she said. 
 
Republicans including Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) have floated trying to block any Clinton nominee.
 
Also during the rally, McCain slammed President Obama, calling his time in the White House the “most disastrous presidency in the history of this country.”
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